The key to attracting and retaining talent is your office design

Gensler Regional Managing Principal, Robin Klehr Avia, FIIDA, sheds light on three important keys to retaining talent through design: technology, well-being, and flexible layouts.

Great Solutions

41 Great Solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

AI ChatBots, ambient computing, floating MRIs, low-carbon cement, sunshine on demand, next-generation top-down construction. These and 35 other innovations make up our 2024 Great Solutions Report, which highlights fresh ideas and innovations from leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms.

Adaptive Reuse

4 ways to transform old buildings into modern assets

As cities grow, their office inventories remain largely stagnant. Yet despite changes to the market—including the impact of hybrid work—opportunities still exist. Enter: “Midlife Metamorphosis.”

Sustainable Development

Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development

NBBJ leaders Jonathan Ward and Margaret Montgomery explore five inspirational ideas they are actively integrating into projects to ensure more healthy, natural cities.

Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase occupant connectivity to the natural environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions.

Biophilic Design | Feb 7, 2019

The Business Case for Building with Wood

Increasingly, building owners and design professionals are turning to wood construction to satisfy…

Biophilic Design | Feb 7, 2019

Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

This course will examine how wood structures and finishings can help meet tenancy trends and the…

Biophilic Design | Jan 29, 2019

Structural Wood Building Systems

This course examines the key differences between light frame and mass timber systems. We will…

Biophilic Design | Jan 29, 2019

Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Wood Buildings

Prefabricated wood buildings should be considered when designing and building both multi-family and…

Plants in the living wall provide a direct experience of nature

Biophilic Design | Stantec | Nov 19, 2018

Biophilic design: What is it? Why it matters? And how do we use it?

As we continue to move toward the city and spend more time indoors, our day-to-day interaction with quality nature is shrinking. One contemporary concept to reverse this effect is biophilic design, a strategic approach to tap into—and harness—nature in the built environment.